Jason’s buy this month is an article about that Gothic favorite, the ruined building (or better, city). It is by E.C. Ambrose who sprinkles it liberally with photos of actual ruins and examples of their use in fantasy. Naturally the piece is called “The Romance of Ruins”.

Neil has a brief editorial glowing happily about the Nebula nominations and intimating that more content will be coming soon.

And finally this month’s cover is “Dead Space Girl” by Sergio Diaz from Buenos Aires.

And on that subject, we also have the new issue of Lightspeed which is also packed full of goodness. In particular I note that the ebook-only feature this month is “Cleopatra Brimstone”, a particularly creepy and wonderful novella by Liz Hand. There’s also an interview with Ian McDonald and other reprint stories from Kathleen Ann Goonan, Karen Joy Fowler and Gene Wolfe.